DALE: Immigration question

FAIR lobby days FAIR's Lobby Days Begin This September and We Need Your Help From Home! Please Call Your Representatives and Urge Them to Participate! Monday September 8 through to September 11, 2008, FAIR will be holding its annual Lobby Days in Washington, D.C. This year's Hold Their Feet to the Fire event sponsored by the FAIR Congressional Task Force promises to be SPECTACULAR with at least 50 radio show hosts broadcasting LIVE from Capitol Hill Wednesday and Thursday. This event may be the largest gathering of talk radio ever in Washington D.C. and will include hosts from many of the top-rated shows in the country! Many Members have signed up to be guests on these radio shows, but we need more. It seems some Members are not willing to talk about immigration reform unless it is in back-room strategy sessions. In contrast, we would like you to CALL YOUR MEMBERS (Representatives and Senators) and URGE them to sign up as radio guests to talk publicly about their position on guest worker amnesty legislation. Time is running out! Congressional efforts to reauthorize E-Verify, the electronic work authorization verification program, have stalled despite bipartisan efforts of many Members to bring a bill to the floor. The program, vital to combating the unlawful employment of illegal aliens, will expire in November if legislation to reauthorize the bill does not pass both the House and Senate before the fall recess. In March, Representative Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), along with sixteen cosponsors, introduced H.R.5596, which would extend the E-Verify program for a ten-year period. Plans to bring the bill to the floor were halted earlier this month when Representative Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) insisted that language be added to the bill that could jeopardize future funding of the operation of the program. In short, Rep. Johnson's language would prohibit the Social Security Administration (SSA) from ever spending any of its own funds to implement the program. Since the program is a joint effort of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and SSA, this means that if DHS ever fails to enter into a reimbursement agreement with SSA, the SSA database could not be used to verify an employee's legal work status. Please CALL YOUR MEMBERS and tell them you would like them to go on the radio and tell the American people where they stand. If they tell you they have already signed up, please thank them and let them know you will be listening. Find your Member of Congress' phone number. If the staff person you talk to asks you for details, please refer them to our website. All of the event information is accessible via the homepage. Federation for American Immigration Reform 25 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 330 Washington, DC 20001 Tel: (202) 328-7004 Fax: (202) 387-3447

Good! Don't let the door hit them on the way out! But this time let's lock it afterward, okay?

Helle, cut your own grass and stop contributing to the problem.

What Helle Dale describes is reminiscent of a Washington elitist in the 1800’s would have boosted about the benefits and luxury of cheap manual labor. Back then it was called slavery. Today, they call them undocumented workers. This is a heavy price to pay to have Ms. Dale toes painted by the under privileged.

The influx sure hasn't seemed to have abated in my Chicago neighborhood as measured by the daily sight of new obviously foreign migrants wandering the neighborhood and the ever growing mounds of Corona bottles in the local park. The Spanish ESL numbers at our local public elementary school almost double annually. Whatever planet Ms. Dale is living on, conditions aren't the same as they are here.